Enlisted in the Royal ScotsWent to india with the 1st Battalion and served there till the outbreak of WarReturned to EnglandProceeded to FranceKilled in action

His Company Sergeant Major :' He was highly respected by the officers , NCO's and men and a better soldier never wore the uniform.He died like a good British soldier in the trench not far from the machine gunhe was in charge of.We buried him in the Bellewaerde Wood , Hooge, about 4 km from the now ruined city of Ypres.

He was a keen sportsman and a first-class shot, and at the Royal Scots Rifle Meeting he won the championship medal , India 1912.​He was in 'C' Coy hockey team which won the Meay Ahmed Hockey Cup, 1911-12 and at the Royal Scots Rifle Meeting he won third prize, aggregate 1914.

Parke John AubreyBritishLieutenantDurham Light Infantry attd. 9th Bn. Rifle Brigade226 october 189225 september 1915 Third son of Lt. Col. Lawrence Parke and Eveline Jane Aelfrida Lees, of Moreton Heath, Moreton, Dorset.His borthers was also killed :- Parke walter Evelyn 2nd Bn. Durham Light Infantry - Lieutenant 13 october 1914 Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension , France​With Mr. Pellatt at Langton Matravers before coming to Winchester College (1906-11) .He was a School Prefect and a member of Lords: he won his VI Cap, was twelfth man for Association XI his last year and played golf for the School in 1910 and 1911.​He went up to Oriel College, Oxford, in 1911 with the intention of going into the Church​Ypres Menin Gate MemorialPanel 36 and 38

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He joined the Rifle Brigade when war was declared but later was attached to the 10th Battalion Durham Light Infantry Killed in action at Bellewaarde

Parker William MackworthBritishCaptainAdjt. 8th Bn. The Rifle Brigade281 september 188630 july 1915 Eldest son of Lt. Col. W. F. Parker (late Rifle Brigade) and Helenor Stephen, of Delamore, DevonHe married in 1912 Lilian Ursula Vivian, duaghter of Sir Arthur Vivian KCB. They had a son, Frederick Anthony Vivian Parker, who came to Winchester (1926-1931) played for Lords and joined the Rifle Brigade.He came to Winchester College( 1900-05) from Aysgarth School and in his last year he was a Commoner Prefect, captain of Commoner VI and second captain of Lords.He also represented the school at football.Career soldier​Ypres Menin Gate MemorialPanel 46-48 and 50

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​After leaving Winchester he served for two years in the Royal North Devon Imperial Yeomanry and joined the Regular Army and the Rifle Brigade , winning the Sword of Honour at the Royal Military College.​He played for the Army at cricket and football – the latter while still at Sandhurst​​A few weeks after the outbreak of war he was appointed Adjutant of the 8th (Service) Battalion of the Rifle Brigade.He fell at Hooge in the first action in which the Germans used flame throwers.His body was never recovered.

Patrick Francis Alexander ScottishPrivate"A" Coy. 9th Bn. Royal Scots226 december 1892 , Edinburgh12 april 1915Eldest son of John Bonthron Patrick and Wilemina Frances , of 1, Morningside Terrace, Edinburgh. ​Single Educated at- the George Watson's College (1903-08) where he was a successful student, and an ardent competitor at the annual School Games- the University of Edinburgh (1909-14) Student of Arts and ScienceMember of the OTC Artillery November 1909 to February 1911He passed the examination for the Indian Police in 1912, and began to study Indian and Colonial agriculture at Besancon University, Jena University and Guelph (Canada). ​Ypres Menin Gate MemorialPanel 5

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When war broke out he was working for his B.Sc. in Agriculture at the University of EdinburghJoined the 9th Royal ScotsProceeded to FranceKilled in action in the trenches at Ypres the first Watsonian to fall in the `Dandy Ninth.'

An officer writing home to his brother said:' This sad event cast a gloom over the Battalion, with whom Patrick had been very popular, and I assure you I feel his loss very keenly.He was a lad I was proud to have in my platoon, a fellow-Watsonian.'He was a keen golfer and fisher, and a good horseman, and one of the best shots in the Regiment but above all was a dilligent student.​'If you want to find Patrick' wrote one of his comrades at the Front in the few days of restthat fell to them, ' go to the roofless library or convent ruins and there you will find him rummaging amongst the old and shell-torn books, smoking his pipe.'

Enlisted in the 14th Hussars October 1900.Served in the South African war under General French and received the Queen's medal with three clasps.​Served for 14 years with the Colours.Then joined the Reserve and was employed as a groom at Selby.Mobilized ​Went to France in September 1914 attached to the Royal Horse Guards.He was killed in action at Ypres.